A public open house on oil and gas regulations for Longmont will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 PM on February 6, 2011, in the lobby of the Council Chambers. At 7:00 PM three city boards will receive information from staff and hear testimony from citizens.
Here we are in another presidential election year. Billions of dollars will be spent on advertising to get people to vote for one candidate or another. However, outcomes can be affected before the election by state laws disenfranchising certain groups.
Surrounded by his parents and Senate President Brandon Shaffer, Jonathan Singer took the Oath of Office from Justice Nancy Rice of the Colorado Supreme Court.
For all those climate change deniers who have convinced themselves that greenhouse gases are not man-made, here’s a great big wake-up call.
With the help of wordsmiths like Frank Luntz and a year of practice, one of the 1%’s water carriers has got that political “pivoting” maneuver down pretty well. But someone’s always going to show up with that question, the one not expected, the one that wasn’t included in the script.
A panel presentation about the tradoffs of hydraulic fracturing will be help February 12th (1-3 PM) at the Universalist Unitarian Church in Denver at Colorado Boulevard and Hampden. The presentation will cover the "unadvertised" significant impacts and real long-term costs of fracking for oil and gas in Colorado.
The last time the NRA and pals tried to sneak this through it got soundly defeated. But Colorado's gun enthusiasts won't give up.
The Occupy movement is attempting to bring fairness and justice to a system that is corrupt and economically rigged to benefit the few.
U.S. Representative Cory Gardner (R) will be holding a town hall meeting in Longmont on January 16th from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the American Legion Hall, 315 S. Bowen Street.
The City Council, city staff and the Times-Call should take oil and gas industry arguments with a grain of salt and pay attention to the mounting evidence that argues differently.
"... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of this country will endeavor to prolong its reign..." Abraham Lincoln, 1864
“In the real world of politics, the 'quid pro quo' of both direct contributions to candidates and independent expenditures on their behalf is loyalty. And, in practical effect, experience teaches us that money corrupts, and enough of it corrupts absolutely.”
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